I really think MAD ROCK pull this one off!!!

If you are looking for a pair of super comfy shoes, these are not them, the semi stiff sole, and the arch on the shoe makes it super painful to wear your shoes after a long route, and funny thing you are in so much pain that when you take them off you think your feet are actually bleeding, the inner linning of the shoe dies your feet red, they dont smell too bad but you might like to have the ODOR EATER around.

These shoes are really good on small edges and super tinny footholds, the heel cup is amazing you can pretty much do a heel toe, let go of your heands and the shoe will stay without shifting or slipping. They perform really good inside and outside, specially on a warm day, the rubber is amazingly sticky, this shoe its not expenssive at all you get a lot of value for your Dollar.

The only proble I had with this shoe, was the sole, note that most of mad rock shoes have that funny looking 3d edge on the shoe, I had my shoes for like a month or month an a half, to this point I really liked the shoes, until I noticed that the sole started to tear at the little seam along the bottom of my foot, and I wasnt the only one, alot of my friends wanted to kill me because I recommended the shoe to them and they were experiencing the same problem.

The Mad Rock ConCept are my technical edging shoe. If the holds are small I am wearing these shoes or wishing I was. They stick to micro edges like a dream! I got the Concepts with the intention of of having them be my performance shoe, so I sized them pretty small (street 9.5, concept 8). Needless to say I would not call them comfortable, but I am certainly not dying to tear them of me feet when I get down from a climb. The rubber is super sticky and I have had no trouble durability issues. They work well on the steeps especially if there are small edges or heel hooks involved. I would definitely recommend the concepts as a performance sport climbing or bouldering shoe. These are not the shoes I use for trad climbing, however I think these shoes have some definite potential depending on how you size them and what your climbing. If your are climbing super thin steep cracks these shoes would be great. If you sized them to a comfortable fit they would work just fine as an all purpose trad shoe and the rubber over the top of the shoe would probably save your toes and the top of your foot from some pain when crack climbing.

Value!! Compared to the other shoes on the market in the same category the ConCepts are an absolute steal! They climb great, they look good and they are relatively inexpensive.

This show was pretty good. I mean the only reason I wouldn't buy it is if you do not like the narrow heel and prefer something wider. Other than that it is pretty good, performs well for its price. But it does not last long, the heel started spreading on mine after about 5 months.

When I hit the Bunkers at Foster's, these are the shoes I go for. Solid heel cup, and narrow profile means these excel at the steeps.

The edging precision on these things is insane.
The rubber was a bit slick at first, but after breaking them
in, they stuck to everything. A bit softer feel compared to
the Madrock Demon.